Tag: Andy Spyra
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Post-War Sufferance: An Interview with Andy Spyra « The Leica Camera
Link: Andy Spyra is a young photographer who has made documenting the impacts of the war and genocide in Bosnia his project. This year, the 26-year old was awarded the Oskar Barnack Nachwuchspreis for up-and-coming photographers. During his latest reports, Andy Spyra used the Leica M9 – a camera he appreciates especially “in the context…
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Feeling the pull of war: Andy Spyra | Arts | DW.COM | 03.01.2017
Feeling the pull of war: Andy Spyra | DW | 03.01.2017 He is one of Germany’s best photographers, and his main theme is war. Andy Spyra told DW about the hurdles and limits of high-risk photography – and why it fascinates him. via DW.COM: http://www.dw.com/en/feeling-the-pull-of-war-andy-spyra/a-36988778 He is one of Germany’s best photographers, and his main…
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Photojournalist Andy Spyra Deported from Turkey on Allegations He’s a Jihadist
Photojournalist Andy Spyra Deported from Turkey on Allegations He’s a Jihadist | PDNPulse Photojournalist Andy Spyra was barred from entering Turkey on March 28 because Turkish authorities suspected he was an Islamic militant, according to press reports. Spyra, who was on assignment for Der Spiegel, was stopped at an Istanbul airport, searched via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/04/photojournalist-andy-spyra-deported-from-turkey-on-allegations-hes-a-jihadist.html…
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The enemy within: A closer look at survivors of Boko Haram attacks across Northern Nigeria, Part II – The Washington Post
The enemy within: A closer look at survivors of Boko Haram attacks across Northern Nigeria, Part II Andy Spyra revisited Nigeria in 2014 and took a deeper dive into Boko Haram’s physical and emotional impact across the region via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/01/27/the-enemy-within-a-closer-look-at-survivors-of-boko-haram-attacks-across-northern-nigeria-part-ii/ In January and February 2014, photographer Andy Spyra revisited several additional villages and…
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The enemy within: Boko Haram’s reign of terror across Northern Nigeria, Part I – The Washington Post
The enemy within: Boko Haram’s reign of terror across Northern Nigeria, Part I A two-part exploration of Boko Haram’s devastating impact on the country’s remote villages in the north. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/01/26/the-enemy-within-boko-harams-reign-of-terror-across-northern-nigeria-part-i/ German photojournalist Andy Spyra has spent over three years embedded in remote villages in northern Nigeria, documenting the attacks in the region,…
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andy spyra – exodus
Andy Spyra – Exodus Andy Spyra Exodus [ EPF 2013 SHORTLIST ] Christianity is on the edge of extinction in its birthplace, the Middle East. Escaping sectarian violence, kidnappings, religious fatwas, economic hardship … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/11/andy-spyra-exodus/ Christians have always been part of the intellectual and economic elite of Middle Eastern societies and their…
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Unending Echoes of the Bosnian War: The Work of Andy Spyra – NYTimes.com
Mr. Spyra, a 26-year-old German photographer, is photographing the aftermath of the war in Bosnia, which claimed 100,000 lives before it ended in 1995. “You ask yourself how could this happen again after what happened in Germany,” he said. “You talk to the people, you talk to the victims of genocide in Bosnia, and I…
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Photo Booth: Postcard from Kashmir: Andy Spyra : The New Yorker
Postcard from Kashmir: Andy Spyra Earlier this year, the German photographer Andy Spyra’s photograph of mourners at a funeral in Kashmir won third place in the Pictures of the Year … via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2010/10/postcard-from-kashmir-andy-spyra-and-his-holga.html Spyra recently shared with me another body of work from the region, which he shot with a Holga, a…
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andy spyra – kashmir | burn magazine
andy spyra – kashmir [slidepress gallery=’spyra_anthropographia’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen Andy Spyra Kashmir play this essay I first came to Kashmir in the early spring of… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2010/09/andy-spyra-kashmir/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 I first came to Kashmir in the early spring of 2007 at the end of a motorcycle trip across…
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: Andy Spyra: The Shadows of Srebrenica
Andy Spyra: The Shadows of Srebrenica travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/07/andy-spyra-shadows-of-srebrenica.html The Shadows of Srebrenica is a collection of black & white photographs by the incredibly talented Andy Spyra, and is a powerful reminder of that era, and also reminds us that many of those responsible for this genocide have yet to be apprehended, especially Ratko…
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Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award Winner Andy Spyra « The Leica Camera
Andy Spyra is the winner of the Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2010. The international jury sought to find a series of photographs in which a photographer, under the age of 25 years old, perceives and documents the interaction between man and the environment with acute vision and contemporary style – creative, groundbreaking and unintrusive. Here…